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I'm delighted to report that all seeds have now been safely delivered. Ruud's older seeds arrived here yesterday after all and Ruud has received his seed parcel this morning. So no losses and lots of varieties distributed successfully.

I'll contact separately those who were interested in receiving some older seeds and take it from there.

Package arrived today,what an abounce of seeds.I will thank everybody who contribute to the seedcircle.Thank you jan for organising it.Everybody a merry christmas and a happy new year.

Juliev. It's wonderful to have your pepper donations, interestingly both purple. Am I right in thinking you didn't list them originally?

Do you have any info about either of them and what your sources were?

Quote from: galina on December 14, 2025, 07:27:42Writing a letter I have not tried. But I have also asked the question and offered to share costs, when the owner was still contactable, which resulted in no reply for many months.  So I didn't go there again.  Lest the owner was offended by the suggestion.  Contacts have been tried recently on GFSS, on here and on FB.   

It seems that the owner has not logged onto GFSS sine the middle of 2024 so there's no point trying a PM on the forum itself. I have no other means of contacting her.

It would be wonderful if we could contact her as it would also be great to save the wealth of information on that site but it's looking like a remote possibility.

Quote from: garrett on December 12, 2025, 13:46:11I access A4A on my phone and all I get is a pop up advert image occasionally, never a video so I don't find adverts intrusive.

I've read the Growing Food Saving Seeds forum in the past but have never been able to join. I don't use Facebook and frankly I'm unwilling to join it.

So my feedback is that I'm happy to continue with A4A.

A final suggestion would be that the Gardener's Corner forum seems quite active and doesn't currently have a seed circle that I've ever noticed. They were happy to welcome people who migrated over after the Gardener's World forum was shut down.

Thanks for the suggestion of Gardener's Corner. I hadn't come across it before.

Writing a letter I have not tried. But I have also asked the question and offered to share costs, when the owner was still contactable, which resulted in no reply for many months.  So I didn't go there again.  Lest the owner was offended by the suggestion.  Contacts have been tried recently on GFSS, on here and on FB.   

Quote from: galina on December 12, 2025, 09:34:50But, and unfortunately it is a big but, currently the very desirable GFSS site is overrun by spam posts and my attempts to get the list owner to clean up, have gone unanswered.  As the list owner seems to be not exactly present nor contactable, we have no way to communicate in case of trouble. 

I think GFSS would be a great option, if administration could be transfered to an active member. Someone is paying for the domain and hosting, presumably on automatic payment. Once that ends we'll lose a valuable archive on information. It's a cost I'm willing to share to keep the domain active. Have you tried contacting the owner by traditional mail? If not, a letter in the post might yield results.

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Quote from: Vetivert on December 12, 2025, 13:22:23Hi Ruud, what is the species of the mayweed you included?

It is Mayweed Chamomile

I access A4A on my phone and all I get is a pop up advert image occasionally, never a video so I don't find adverts intrusive.

I've read the Growing Food Saving Seeds forum in the past but have never been able to join. I don't use Facebook and frankly I'm unwilling to join it.

So my feedback is that I'm happy to continue with A4A.

A final suggestion would be that the Gardener's Corner forum seems quite active and doesn't currently have a seed circle that I've ever noticed. They were happy to welcome people who migrated over after the Gardener's World forum was shut down.